Anamnesia - Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (Paperback, New edition)

Memory has always been crucial to French literature and culture as a means of mediating the relationship between perception and knowledge of the individual coming to terms with his identity in time. Relatively recently, memory has also emerged as the key force in the creation of a collective consciousness in the wider perspective of French cultural history. This collection of essays, selected from the proceedings of a seminar on 'Memory' given by Dr Emma Wilson at the University of Cambridge, offers a fresh evaluation of memory as both a cultural and an individual phenomenon in modern and contemporary French culture, including literature, cinema and the visual arts. 'Anamnesia', the book's title, develops the Aristotelian concept of anamnesis: recollection as a dynamic and creative process, which includes forgetting as much as remembering, concealment as much as imagination. Memory in this extremely diverse range of essays is therefore far from being presented as a straightforward process of recalling the past, but emerges as the site of research and renegotiation, of contradictions and even aporia.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Modern French Identities, 83
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	2010
Editors:	Peter Collier • Anna Elsner • Olga Smith
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	338
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911846-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	3-03-911846-3
Barcode:	9783039118465

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